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web between fourth and fifth toes ; disks of fingers large, that of third 

 finger covering over four-fifths of the tympanic area; first finger 

 much shorter than second; disks of toes slightly smaller than those 

 of fingers ; first toe reaching to base of disk of second toe ; subarticular 

 tubercles well developed; two metatarsal tubercles, the outer small 

 but distinct, the inner large and rather flattened; no enlarged plantar 

 tubercles; a faint tarsal ridge but no fold; femur rather short; the limbs 

 being pressed along the sides, the knee and elbow touch; hind limb 

 being extended forward, the heel reaches the posterior corner of the 

 eye; hind limbs being placed vertically to axis of body, heels slightly 



Figure 27. — Eleutherodactylus bakeri: a, Dorsum; b, venter; r, profile of head; d, inside of 

 mouth; e, underside of hand;/, underside of foot. U.S.N. M. No. 95420, paratype, from 

 Morne La Hotte, Haiti, a-d, Natural size; e, f, twice natural size. 



overlap; a few elongate glands on the mid-dorsal line especially pro- 

 nounced on head, much less so on body; some "very narrow elongate 

 glands above the ear and on the sides and anterior part of back; skin 

 above shagreened; eyelids tubercular; chin smooth; chest, belly and 

 thighs heavily granular. 



"Dimensions. — Tip of snout to vent, 38 mm.; width of head, 17 

 mm.; tip of snout to posterior tympanum, 14 mm.; diameter of eye, 

 4 mm.; foreleg from axilla, 24 mm.; hindleg from vent, 58 mm.; 

 vent to heel, 32 mm. 



